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...device, since viruses that are too deadly cannot survive if they kill off their host before being given a chance to spread. "It's fairly common in epidemics to see a trade-off between the ability to cause severe death and transmissibility," says Steven Kleiboeker, a virologist and the chief scientific officer for ViraCor Laboratories. The A/H1N1 virus may be attenuating itself as it spreads from person to person, becoming easier to catch but less dangerous. (Read "CDC Readies Swine-Flu Vaccine...
...Minkoff—who is on the Recent Graduates Committee and helped craft the e-mail—did emphasize the importance of the Harvard name and alumni networks. Minkoff, who switched jobs, said she hated her old job but loves her new one as the editor-in-chief of a start-up Web site. Vacca said the current economic recession also has some benefits, forcing graduates to consider jobs outside traditional industries like finance or consulting and think more broadly about career options. —Staff writer Danielle J. Kolin can be reached at dkolin@fas.harvard.edu...
When what is now the Harvard Kennedy School was founded seven decades ago, its chief donor sought a school to educate future leaders in government.To this day, the School’s mission statement charges it “to train enlightened public leaders and to generate the ideas that provide the answers to our most challenging public problems.”But as increasing numbers of graduates enter the private sector—because of debt concerns or pressure from corporate recruiting—some students have concluded the School has fallen short of its lofty aim.In...
...Philadelphia's assistant district attorney in 1959 after spending his first three years in private practice. Left the district attorney's office in 1963 to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as an assistant counsel on the Warren Commission. Became a household name as the Commission's chief architect and a vocal defender of the group's theory that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone...
...Monday by General Motors was born as the Oakland Car Co. in Pontiac, Mich., in 1907. GM acquired the company two years later. Its 1926 Pontiac model was so popular that the GM division changed the Oakland name in favor of that of the 18th century Ottawa Indian chief. And its GTOs, Firebirds and Bonnevilles were among the leaders of the pack of 1960s muscle cars. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...